TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The project ultimately imploded due to a combination of factors. An emerging tech dystopia. For example, when Tumblr announced it would roll out Post+, a paid subscription product, the company used fan fiction writers as an example of a content creator who could profit from the product. pic.twitter.com/2NHEmzHZrV.

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JUNE 22, 2011

As any historian of bubbles will tell you – there were periods of bubbles in assets as arcane as tulips , South American trading companies , dot-com bubbles & housing bubbles. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location. Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo! and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, Show me companies doing this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Arizona or a similar location. Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He says it basically comes down to three key functions: Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Recruits, hires, and retains the very best talent for the company. Run great meetings (don’t be a productivity drain on the company). Selling the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location. Maxwell Wessel, in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. They also make M&A activity more difficult and with lower outcomes.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Real quickly, most companies that offer credit card processing are a middle-man (most banks are middle-man). Anyhow, I replied and asked who pays who here and found that First Data pays Chad a commission for his sales. In most cases these viewings are done by potential customers who are checking on your company’s rating.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

As 2010 approaches, a whole new year of exciting start-ups, tech news, gadgets, and much more is ahead. TechZulu wants to thank not only the Los Angeles tech community but the entire tech community for all the awesome support you have given us throughout this past year. We already have a jammed packed schedule for 2010.

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APRIL 2, 2010

VC’s raise this money from university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, banks who invest from their balance sheet or that of their wealthy clients, “family offices&# which means money from very wealthy people, etc. And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm. Maybe even less.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

We spoke with John Mudge , CEO of iBN Sports (www.ibnsports.com), to learn more about the Lake Forest-based company's success in making content pay on the Internet, and how his company's relationship as one of YouTube's Premium Channels is helping with that effort. What is IBN Sports? How does that work?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 6, 2010

TechZulu is heading out to CES and we got tons of products/gadgets/games/companies to review and interview. Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv Today is the day! Media Temple hosts websites. Big and Small.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 29, 2010

Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely. License your original work on AudioMicro - we accept for review and potential licensing representation all content that meets our minimum quality and sample rate standards and Terms of Service. Justin.tv - Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. But we weren’t optimizing for dilution – we were building a $1 billion+ company and we wanted the runway to succeed. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000.

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MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. When you are selected you share the stage with 49 other companies (in the case of TechCrunch50. Most people pay attention to the first 5 companies. By company 22 it’s hard to remember what any of them did. Many other great companies are not. -

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MAY 13, 2010

How much do we bail out companies that were culpable of helping create our woes and what moral hazards does this create? Companies are the same. Bad leaders want to be loved too much and their companies (or countries) suffer. That suited him when he wasn’t CEO. . &# We had such a great company.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

In 2006 when I was a budding entrepreneur building my second startup I ran into a young (ish) enthusiastic founder of an electronic signature company called EchoSign. I was building a document management company and he was building a document signature company. We shared information about building sales teams.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Many of our job postings for Engineering positions describe the company as a place “where the word ‘millions’ is used frequently and in many contexts&#.

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